Music artist: "Why I prefer piracy to Spotify"

Re:Music artist: "Why I prefer piracy to Spotify" by bad_user on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @06:32AM (#3294698)

You NEVER "own" the songs you buy. You only "own" the right of listening to those songs whenever you want.

So how is "owning" a CD any different from Spotify?

Also, the value of a song diminishes the more you listen to it. Seriously, even if you love a song, put it on repeat for a day and you probably won't listen to it again for a couple of months.

So it's not like Spotify customers will one day buy the music, unless they really have very specific needs, like being somewhere with a bad or expensive Internet connection, but if you subscribed to Spotify in the first place then I doubt that.

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Re:Music artist: "Why I prefer piracy to Spotify" by technoslut on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @09:14AM (#3295064)

> So how is "owning" a CD any different from Spotify?

Because if you quit Spotify you lose all the music. The CD you can keep for life without having to pay $10 every month.

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Re:Music artist: "Why I prefer piracy to Spotify" by tacoe on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @07:44AM (#3294835)

If you don't think it's different, wait for publishers to pull albums from Spotify. This happens all the time. poof gone. Does this happen to your CDs?

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